Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 01:04:16 +0000
Here’s more urban air mobility (UAM) electric vertical takeoff & landing (eVTOL) and electric fixed-wing aircraft news for the last week of
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 04:35:12 +0000
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, aviation is not only undergoing its third revolution, with electricity this time, but history was made on Tuesday, December 10, in Vancouver, Canada, when Harbour Air took off in a seaplane using electricity. The maiden electric seaplane flight is a sweet wink at commercial aviation history, which started with seaplanes
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 04:57:44 +0000
The Munich-based aviation startup Lilium Jet has been busy and recently released a video of its successful 3-minute test flight on October 1st. Lilium tested controllability with banked turns in transition flight needed before certification and commercialization
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 02:24:25 +0000
The Rolls-Royce ACCEL is one slippery and sleek design, ready to duke it out in the soon-to-start Air Race
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:46:11 +0000
I met with Yesh Premkumar, Program Manager of Strategic Development Controls & Avionics Solutions at BAE, regarding the recent memorandum of understanding (MOU) the company signed with Jaunt Air Mobility. I learned a lot about what BAE has to bring to the electric urban air mobility (UAM) table
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:00:53 +0000
January is always a tough month for us, with CES kicking off less than a week after New Year’s Eve, and now the Transformative Vertical Flight 2020 Conference is two weeks later
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 01:47:28 +0000
I met with the Safran team at the National Business Aviation Association–Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) event two weeks ago for the introduction of their newly revealed ENGINeUS aviation electric motors. I learned a little more about what the company is doing in the electric aviation world and how it plans to develop its technology for the future of our urban air mobility (UAM) future
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 20:31:56 +0000
A series of startups and established aviation giants are joining the Dassault Systèmes’ (DS) 3DEXPERIENCE platform family to support their digital engineering initiatives. Adding to the Airbus, Boeing, Bell, Lockheed Martin, and BOOM Supersonic family, electric air mobility pioneer Eviation Aircraft is also coming on board. A few more aviation startups are also using the Dassault platform, such as Joby Aviation and Solar Impulse. Stay tuned, as we will soon reveal even more startups who will use Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Lab
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:48:36 +0000
We’ve heard about electric air mobility for a few years now, and even electric boats, but Harbour Air, based in Vancouver, Canada, is the only one tackling electric seaplanes, as we previously covered
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:40:17 +0000
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is slowly warming up to electric aircraft, but regulatory approval takes far too long